USB Memory Stick & Flash Drive

[Richard Coutts]

I have an IBM Memory stick and a generic flash drive which work well in XP,
and I don't recall having to install drivers for them. I believe that when I
first plugged them in, XP just detected them etc etc etc. I have tried to
use them with my PC that has Vista installed, but after initially detecting
both drives, Vista then asks me to install drivers. Am I doing something
wrong here???

 

[Airman Thunderbird]

This seems to be a popular problem with Vista. One popular solution
seems to be to tell Vista to look in your Windows folder, which doesn't
always work, and if it does work, might need redoing next time you plug
it in. I suspicion this has to do with the "enhanced" system security
that Vista offers.
Anyway, Googling the problem gets many hits.

Richard Coutts wrote:
> I have an IBM Memory stick and a generic flash drive which work well in XP,
> and I don't recall having to install drivers for them. I believe that when I
> first plugged them in, XP just detected them etc etc etc. I have tried to
> use them with my PC that has Vista installed, but after initially detecting
> both drives, Vista then asks me to install drivers. Am I doing something
> wrong here???